Background*

Mr. Samuel Knox Skinner, J.D., also known as Sam, has been an Of Counsel at Greenberg Traurig, LLP. He concentrates on corporate, governmental and regulatory matters since May 2004. He is the retired Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of USF Corporation. He is Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of US Freightways Corp; Mr. Skinner served as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of YRC Regional Transportation, Inc. from July 17, 2000 ... to April 2003. He was a Partner of Hopkins & Sutter. He served as President of Commonwealth Edison Company and its holding company, Unicom Corporation. From 1977 to 1989, he practiced law as a Senior Partner at Sidley & Austin. He held various sales and management positions with the IBM Corporation from 1960 to 1968 and also at ARRIS Group, Inc. Mr. Skinner has been Non-Executive Chairman of Echo Global Logistics, Inc. since February 19, 2007. He served as the Chairman of Transportation.com. He has been Vice Chairman and Non-Employee Director at Virgin America Inc, since January 30, 2007 and 2004 respectively. He has been a Director of Echo Global Logistics, Inc. since September 2006 and Anadarko Holding Company since October 1996. He has been Member of North American Advisory Board at Transurban Group and Transurban Holdings Ltd. since October 2006. He serves as Member of Advisory Board of Metalmark Capital LLC. He serves as a Director of Arris Group Inc., Odetics ITS Inc., The Illinois Technology Development Alliance, ANTEC Corporation, EVEREN Capital, The LTV Corporation and Midwest Express Holdings, Inc. Mr. Skinner serves as a Director at Midwest Air Group, Inc. since 1998. He has been a Director at Navigant Consulting Inc. since December 1999, RME Holding Company since October 1996, Click Commerce Inc. since July 2003, Aristotle Holding Inc. since February 2004 and CBOE Holdings, Inc. since 2004. He served as Independent Director of MedAssets, Inc since November 16, 2009 until May 20, 2014. He served as Member of Advisory Board at Enertech Capital. He served as a Director of Express Scripts Holding Company from February 11, 2004 to May 7, 2014. He served as Director of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Inc. from September 23, 2003 to November 09, 2009, Chicago and North Western Transportation Company since November 1993, Iteris Inc. since April 1999, Dade Behring Holdings Inc. since February 18, 2004, Dade Behring, Inc. since February 2004 and Stimsonite Corporation since October 1998. He serves as Director of Express Scripts, Inc. He serves as Director of U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He served as Director of APAC Customer Services, Inc. since June 2008 and previously served as its Director from July 30, 2003 to June 2005. He also was formerly White House chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush and, prior to that, served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation from February 1989 to December 1991. Mr. Skinner previously was United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1975 to 1977, having served in that office for eight years. He also developed the “open skies“ policy of the United States that liberalized U.S. international policy and significantly increased the number of international flights to and from the U.S. In addition, he acted as the President's point person in numerous crisis situations, including the Eastern Air Lines strike, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the northern California earthquake, Hurricane Hugo, and the 1991 national rail strike. Mr. Skinner was given the highest ranking for his performance as Secretary of Transportation by Washingtonian magazine twice. From 1984 to 1988, while practicing law full-time, he served as Chairman of the Regional Transportation Authority of northeastern Illinois. Also during that time, President Reagan appointed Mr. Skinner as the Vice Chairman of the President's Commission on Organized Crime. He served as a Lieutenant and a Tank Platoon Leader in the United States Army from 1960 to 1961. He is involved in the Boy Scouts most of his life, has earned the Eagle Scout as a youth and was honored with Distinguished Eagle Scout Award and Silver Buffalo Award. Mr. Skinner serves as a Commissioner of the Department of Defense's Base Realignment and Closure Commission. He served on the law review at DePaul University. He is an Adjunct Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a JD from DePaul University Law School in 1966.

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